The Farnsworth Parabox
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[edit] The Farnsworth Parabox
| Futurama Episode Guide | |||
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| Episode Title | The Farnsworth Parabox | Philip J. Fry | Billy West |
| Episode Number | 69 | Bender B. Rodriguez | John DiMaggio |
| Production Number | 4ACV15 | Turanga Leela | Katey Sagal |
| Original Airdate | 8 June, 2003 | Professor H. Farnsworth | Billy West |
| Intro Caption | Beats A Hard Kick In The Face | Hermes Conrad | Phil LaMarr |
| Intro Promotion | Amy Wong | Lauren Tom | |
| Intro Cartoon | Dr. J.A. Zoidberg | Billy West | |
| Script | Bill Odenkirk | Special Guests | |
| Director | Ron Hughart | Also Starring | |
| Storyboard | Guest Starring | ||
| Animation | 3D Animation | ||
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[edit] Plot
The episode begins with explosions, with occasional jolts of lightning in Farnsworth's lab. The professor in agony screams for help, but Bender continues sleeping, and Fry continues attempting to get Leela on a date. She rejects him saying her toaster was left on. They speak loudly to be heard over the booms and zaps from upstairs, where the Professor, still in distress, cries out to Buddha, then Zeus, then God, for assistance. Fry asks her real reasons for not wanting to go out, over an invocations from the lab: Farnsworth demands Satan help, noting, "You owe me!" Still loudly, Leela replies, "..I have sweaty boot rash!" Unfortunately the explosions end just before she says it. Amy ends up overhearing, and notes it's why she's sitting far away from her. Fry laughs...and asks again for a date.
In the conference room (filled with debris due to the explosion), Farnsworth happily states with his usual "good news" that's he's technically still alive, but he needs them to drop off the box containing the experiment that nearly killed him...in the sun. Only hurling it into the "thermonuclear inferno" of sun itself, he explains, will "ensure its total destruction".
A curious Zoidberg tries to look in the box, Farnsworth convinces him, with a hammer, to desist; the crew are warned that whatever is inside is probably beyond their comprehension. Even Hermes becomes inquisitive; Farnsworth again uses the hammer. Dramatically stating that no matter what they're all forbidden from looking inside the box, he then notes how tantalizing it is.
Zoidberg, food crazed, tries frantically to open the box. A gun wielding Hermes scares him, Bender, and Fry away from the box. Hermes then gives the gun to Leela and tells her to shoot the three. Leela adds, "Right. If they try to look in the box." Hermes shrugs. "Whatever".
Fry, and Bender are now in the conference room, and Fry decides to forget about the box. Bender calls Fry naive and states Farnsworth was joking. Fry isn’t fooled, so Bender drops the charade, and simply tells Fry to follow him. They go to the basement and crawl into a superheated steam vent, using it to get directly above the box. Bender replaces his regular eyes with periscopes, to scout the room, and notices Leela is sleeping. Laughing, he extends his arm, and takes the mystery box with ease.
Back in the basement the two open the box (with dramatic music) and discover the box contains... tangled Xmas lights, and unlabeled booze in a wide mouth bottle. Leela who was only pretending to be sleeping state the decoy box should distract the two, and gets up. It turns out she was sitting on the real box all along. Satisfied protecting the box will be a simple chore since no one's curious about it, she tries to read a magazine, unfortunately she is now also starting show curiosity about the box.
Nevertheless Leela has managed to keep the box safe throughout the night, and the clock in the room strikes 7am. Mildly irritated by now, she complains how protecting the box made her miss an evening of T.V watching, and decides to drink some coffee. She walks up to the coffee dispenser, and starts to put in change, but pull back, deciding to flip the coin to determine whether or now she should look in the box. Heads she looks, and Tails she doesn’t.
The coin turns up heads, and an elated Leela walks up to the box, but her sense of duty kicks in and she turns around. Still since she promised the coin, she opens the box, and looks in. She curiously notes the box is much deeper than it should be, accidentally falls into it, and comes out a different colored box, bumping her head in the process. A hurt Leela proclaims her lawyer will hear about this, and Fry’s voice is heard asking what she did. She panics and asks “what do you mean why was I looking in the box?”. A Fry with black hair, and a green jacket, explains he wanted to know why her hair was different.
A gold colored Bender walks in and Leela squints and asks if he is Bender. With his usual arrogance, he states yes. Next, Professor Farnsworth walks into the room, but he oddly has a scar going around his head.
[edit] Quotes
Fry: Whatever's in there, it's the only thing I've ever wanted.
Zoidberg: In my experience, boxes are usually empty. Or maybe with a little cheese stuck to the top. And one time pepperoni!
[He clasps his claws together.]
Zoidberg: What a day that was!
[edit] Cultural References
- The coffee machine is "New Chunky Chicken Style" according to the writing on it.
- The Bobblehead Universe is #1729. Known as Ramanujan's taxicab number, a common number in Futurama, as Bender is his mother's 1729th son according to 2ACV14 Mother's Day and the Nimbus is ship BP-1729
- The Hippie Universe is #420. 420 is also a slang term associated with smoking marijuana.
[edit] Continuity
[edit] Debuts and Reappearances
First appearance of The Universe 1 Planet Express Crew.
[edit] Foreshadowing
[edit] Gadgets and Inventions
[edit] Trivia
[edit] Goofs
When everybody returns to Universe A, they emerge in a different order than they went in.
Leela 1's armband does not appear on her right arm in a scene: the first shot of when groups A and 1 are sitting around Farnsworth's round table.
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